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Re: Overlapping quads/triangles for patterns
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lugnet.cad
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Sun, 28 Apr 2002 09:49:43 GMT
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Hi
> I'll add my 2 cents as the author of LDView. This won't usually cause any
> visual problems, but it can. If you enable specular in LDView, it's
> possible for the shininess to be different on the two, resulting in noise
> where they overlap. It's not all that likely to be very visible, but it
> could happen.
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> In addition, although I don't think this effects any patterns, if there is
> ever overlap on a part that is transparent, the overlapped part might get
> drawn twice, and be visible.
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> --Travis Cobbs (tcobbs@REMOVE.halibut.com)
I only used overlap for an some letters, like "X", in a pattern or the red
cross. For all the surrounding polygons I don't use overlap. Another effect
when not using overlaps is that you can see a small gap between two or more
adjescent polygons of a pattern.
Niels Karsdorp
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Message has 2 Replies:
 | | Re: Overlapping things in general
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| A related question on overlap: Anything that is flexible either needs to be modeled at every possible curvature or needs to have an atomic unit that is small enough to look good at various bend radii. The flextube model technique (with ends and (...) (22 years ago, 28-Apr-02, to lugnet.cad)
| | | Re: Overlapping quads/triangles for patterns
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| (...) If the join points are modeled to be the same, there shouldn't be any visible gaps between the polygons. However, it could be that they will be there in some modeling/viewing apps. And, even in your "X" and "+" exaples, noise might be apparent (...) (22 years ago, 29-Apr-02, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Overlapping quads/triangles for patterns
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| (...) I'll add my 2 cents as the author of LDView. This won't usually cause any visual problems, but it can. If you enable specular in LDView, it's possible for the shininess to be different on the two, resulting in noise where they overlap. It's (...) (22 years ago, 28-Apr-02, to lugnet.cad)
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